Pulp Fiction, 1941 · page 114 of 116
10-Story Detective, March 1941 — page 114: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Description This is a story page from *10-Story Detective*, a pulp crime magazine. The page contains narrative prose describing a scene where a character (apparently named Clark) has been shot by someone called "Slug Nixon" and is recovering, while an actress named Doris Adair has helped him. The text suggests Clark is emotionally affected by Doris and will be out of work indefinitely, with a mysterious "fateful key" serving a double purpose in the plot. A recruitment advertisement ("WANTED: 2000 MEN & WOMEN PREPARE YOU FOR A JOB") appears in the upper left, typical of pulp magazine advertising.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
10-STORY DETECTIVE He frowned. Then his frown — turned to a smile as his brawny fist enclosed Doris Adair’s hand.. “T’d be a dead duck now,” he add- ed softly, “if you hadn’t helped, 1 me t Slug Ni "40 MER & WOMEN ee ee se Clark’s ee PREPARE YoU F OR A a CEO VERS: from the bullet wound in- 2 flicted by Nixon. But they held no "AE x hope whatever for his recovery from IO B the effect Doris Adair had on his heart. The actress would be out-. of the cast indefinitely, as Clark had been riously informed—but this time, + a honeymoon. The fateful key ‘ved a double purpose. “= CORCLMHOCKS. CO